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@BreakingBrown@BarackObama, is this the person you admire?
If so, this practice of George Washington replacing his teeth with that of other slaves is as grotesque as your response in that interview.
Shame on you.
It is ironic that you didn't seem to share this same sentiment at the rate that people's money went into Jay Morrison's bank account and not towards the purpose that it was "supposedly" intended for.
Is your perpetual grift hitting a rut again?
“Greatness” is not a word I’d ever use to describe a slave owner.
But it’s easy to have these cold, totally theoretical conversations when the slaves in question were not your ancestors.
It’s easy to talk this way when the impacts of chattel slavery, a failed Reconstruction, Jim Crow, redlining & convict leasing don’t manifest in your actual life because you’re Kenyan/white rather than #ADOS.
American Descendants of Slavery know what we lost when our family was ran off farms. When our ancestors had their labor stolen. We listen to elders speak on how the KKK burned crosses in their yards. And we listen as inheritors of that legacy of plunder—that began with slavery—not just as analytical bystanders or disinterested spectators.
Lineage really does matter.
Just read a Guardian article about reparations and surprise... the author has ties to the MacArthur Foundation
It's amazing how many people in the “reparations space” has ties to MacArthur, Liberation Ventures, or other white philanthropic orgs but hardly anyone discusses it
If not understanding lineage was an interview, this would be it. Coates wasn't able to say that Obama, Harris, & Powell are not us. Their parents struggle was not ours, & you can't put all of black politics in the same boat & separate white politics.
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Tony Brown, a groundbreaking journalist, author, educator, and host of the iconic talk show “Tony Brown’s Journal,” has died. He was 93 https://t.co/9mlagF6Vyi
Im wondering what calculations this Ghanian author, Kwesi Pratt Jr., used to come up with these reparation compensation values
Besides how small they are, yall notice how African nations are apparently owed TWICE as much for colonial extraction than slave descendants for slavery
Ghana Minister of Tourism Abla Dzifa Gomashie:
“Juneteenth is not only an American story. It is a global story. An African story. And a Ghanaian story”
With this logic, wouldn't all stories be universal stories belonging to any and everyone?
Here Coates admits that #LineageMatters, who, how, and where you were raised matters because it helps inform or misinform your politics and perspective on race in America.
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